Marching Forth, 2024
March 4th is a word nerd's favorite holiday, a day for new beginnings...and a time to celebrate your achievements! Plus get ready for next week's All-Subscriber Mini-Workshop
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Today I’m:
🎈 Upcycling my annual March Fo(u)rth post, and …
🎈 Celebrating the first anniversary of last year’s March Fo(u)rth project: The Life of H: Sarah, Reimagined.
BUT FIRST: Time is running out to celebrate March Fo(u)rth. So here’s how to honor this mostly made-up holiday!
March 4th is the only day of the year that is a complete sentence. (Get it? March forth!) Therefore, I’ve declared 3/4 to be a holiday.
To honor this day, choose something you are ready to let go of (an old grudge, an outdated belief, an unhelpful attitude) and then declare that you are ready to March Forth into a new chapter of your beautiful life.
While you're deciding what you want to let go of on this March 4th, here's a link to a story about how I learned the value of moving forward thanks to some bad advice that turned good.
Marching forward
This Dream is a Poem is Marching Fo(u)rth into new terrain starting next week:
Dreaming on the Page Mini Writing Together Circles
In under an hour you’ll enjoy a brief but potent creativity break with inspiration, prompts, and time to write and connect with our community.
Dreaming on the Page (DOTP) Minis take place on the 2nd Tuesday of most months, 11-11:45 a.m. US Eastern Time for all subscribers. Starting next week on Tues. March 12.
The replay, which you can watch anytime, and PDF handouts will be made available as a bonus for paid subscribers only. But anyone can join in real-time on Zoom!
It’s free of charge to all subscribers to this newsletter, whether you’re on the free or paid subscription plan. Get the full story here.
The first-ever DOTP Mini takes place Tuesday, March 12, 11-11:45 a.m. US ET.
The link to join will be sent out in next week’s email. You’ll also receive the link when you RSVP.
What happens when you March Forth
Several years ago on March 4th, I launched a 100-day writing challenge to motivate me to finish writing my book about dreams and writing that I’d been—well—dreaming about for more than 10 years.
Exactly 100 days later, having met my goal, I received an email from The Collective Book Studio saying they were interested in publishing my book!
Now the Dreaming on the Page book has been out in the world inspiring dreams, poems, stories, and memoirs for more than a year!
This Friday from 5:30-6:30 p.m. I’ll be at Splendor Solis Bookshop in Northampton, Mass. offering an author talk about Dreaming on the Page and signing copies.
Learn more and join us, on Friday, March 8, 5:30 p.m. in person.
My (other) online publication The Life of H: Sarah, Reimagined launched on March 4, 2023.
Since then:
More than 2,100 subscribers have signed up to read the weekly installments of The Life of H.
I’ve shared more than 60 posts, including audio poems and reflections on my process of learning and writing about Sarah, Abraham, and Hagar.
More than a dozen poems from The Life of H have been published in literary journals, anthologies, and more including in Pensive, The Other Journal, The Jewish Writing Project, and Ritualwell. (And several more are due to come out in the next few months.)
I’ve taken courses in Writing, The Hebrew Goddess, The Book of Genesis, and Biblical Hebrew … all to feed my bottomless curiosity about who Sarah might have been, why her story is so important, and how best to craft poems to honor all of the above.
Most recently, I’ve developed and taught classes and workshops to teach others about Sarah through writing, one of which I’m now teaching on Ritualwell. (Stay tuned for more workshops and classes.)
Thanks for marching forth with me! I’m dreaming with you,
Tzivia Gover is a Certified Dreamwork Professional and author of Dreaming on the Page: Tap into Your Midnight Mind to Supercharge Your Writing.
